Community | March 25, 2008 | 1 comment

There will, there won't

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/25/jackstraw.iraq?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/25/jackstraw.iraq?gusrc=r...

Be an inquiry into the Iraq war... First Gordon Brown said that there would be a public inquiry into the events that led to the invasion of Iraq, and now Jack Straw says that now is not the time for it.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said that the safety of the 4,100 British troops still "in harm's way in Iraq" was more important than an inquiry.

Those troops "should not themselves be distracted by what would inevitably and understandably be a very significant argument about whether it is right or wrong for them to be present", he said.

So we are allowed our public inquiry into the invasion once the horse has bolted and the troops are home. Isn't the inquiry designed to help stop the war, rendering an inquiry into the war after it has "finished" a bit useless?
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1 comment // There will, there won't

  • Arkitect
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      Arkitect  

    • Kinda says "I may be found guilty of something as I had a big part to play in the British Iraq invasion. So let's put it off indefinitely." to me.

      If going against the will of the nation in a democracy is a crime then the Labour party is certainly guilty of that. Such a shame and such a waste of lives to get caught up in America's bloody middle-eastern bullying war.

    • 5 years ago
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